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Por cristina, 15 marzo, 2012

1.0. When Linnaeus decided to unbind the volumes that used to constitute the herbaria (Hortus Siccus) in order to handle the samples as independent sheets that could be reordered, compared, and added, he made a key change in the way the world biodiversity was described and catalogued.

>>>  Heywood, V.H.  (1983) The mythology of taxonomy. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 44(2): 79-94

2.0. Collections grew based on the organization Linnaeus set, and were victims of their own success though. As a whole, they became the most vast and reliable repository of knowledge about biodiversity. However, retrieving information turned difficult or even impossible in many occasions, e.g. which plants from that collection belong to this area? Computer science, first with the help of databases and later using the Internet, allows those collections to be used -as source of information- in taxonomy, among many other purposes.

>>> Suárez, A.V. & Tsutsui, N.D. (2004). The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society. BioScience 54 (1): 66-74

3.0. We are at the beginning of a new scientific paradigm («A new era of data-intensive science» Douglas Kell). In this scenario, the potential of collections is both obvious and enormous. However, collections must be reinvented to be able to achieve any goal, i.e. their information must be easily accessible and integrative, challenges and pressures coming from the molecular biology field must be assimilated, data images must be connected and related, etc.

>>>  Hey,T., Tansley,S., & Tolle,K. (Eds.) ( 2009). The fourth Paradigm. Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Microsoft Research. Redmon. E.E.U.U.

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Por cristina, 14 marzo, 2012

Dates: 8-11 October 2012.
City: Villa de Leyva (Colombia).
Workshop venue: Claustro de San Agustín, Instituto Alexander von Humboldt. Dirección: Carrera 8 No. 15-08, Villa de Leyva (Boyacá), Colombia. Sitio web.
Organizers: SiB, Sistema de Información sobre Biodiversidad de Colombia (Instituto Alexander von Humboldt) and Spanish GBIF Node (GBIF.ES).
Language: Spanish.
Number of participants: 26.
Trainers/speakers: Cristina Villaverde (GBIF.ES), Danny Vélez (SiB Colombia), Greg Riccardi (The Florida State University), Francisco Pando (GBIF.ES), Juan Carlos Bello (SiB Colombia), Liliana Lara (CONABIO), María Cecilia Londoño (IAvH), María Fernanda Gómez (SiB Colombia), Maylin González (IAvH), Óscar Orrego (SiB Colombia).
Deadline for nominations: July 31^st 2012.
Hotel: http://www.hotellaposadadesanantonio.com/
Contact information: Please contact the Spanish GBIF Node or the I3B Project  (info [at] gbif es / i3b [at] gbif es) if you have any questions about this event.

Description and goals of the workshop

Why Biological Collections 3.0?  [Introduction to the concept, comments are welcome]

The concept of this training course is to take advanced collection managers and curators from the region to the next frontier on collection management. After the paradigms of collections as card files and collections as isolated databases attached to physical specimens, now it is time to tackle aspects that will enable collections to be an integral part of a global information system on biodiversity for science and conservation. Current technologies and approaches will be dealt during the course.

Interoperability; images; semantic web and identifiers; annotations and connections to environmental and molecular databases – and the role of GBIF – are relevant in this context.

Emphasis will be made on how those data can be put at use, and how to do that in the best technical and sociological conditions; and to promote the train the trainer so all these advanced concepts and techniques can be adequately disseminated all over the region.

Target audience

This course is targeted to curators and collection managers leading biological collections topic, who are in a position to disseminate the workshop concepts in their work.

Call for nominations

Latin American GBIF Node managers and I3B members are kindly requested to nominate one or more suitable candidates no later than July the 31^st.  The nominations must be sent by email to i3b [at] gbif es and must include the registration form, the CV of the candidate, any relevant support letters and other relevant information.

The registration form can be downloaded here.

Due to space constraints, a selection process will be held shortly after this date, where the following criteria will be the main evaluation points:

• Their potential involvement in the implementation of biological collections management activities within the GBIF or I3B network;
• Background and knowledge on biodiversity and informatics of the candidates,
• To be linked to collection management or collection conservation within the Latinamerican region.

Schedule

• Publish the first mailing: 20^th June 2012
• Call for GBIF Nodes and I3B members: 27^th June 2012
• Deadline: July 31^st 2012
• Selection process: August 2^nd-14^th 2012
• List of participants: August 15^th 2012

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Por cristina, 14 marzo, 2012

1.0. Linneo, cuando decidió desencuadernar los volúmenes que hasta entonces eran los Herbarios (Hortus Siccus), para así poder manejar los ejemplares como fichas que se pueden reordenar, comparar y añadir, estaba introduciendo un cambio clave para describir y catalogar la biodiversidad del mundo.

>>>  Heywood, V.H.  (1983) The mythology of taxonomy. Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinburgh 44(2): 79-94

2.0. Las colecciones crecieron sobre las bases organizativas sentadas por Linneo, y fueron víctimas de su éxito. En su conjunto han llegado a  constituir el más vasto y fiable repositorio de conocimiento sobre biodiversidad, sin embargo  obtener la información se volvió algo en muchos casos difícil o imposible (p.e.;  ¿Qué plantas de la colección proceden de esta localidad?). La informática, de la mano de las bases de datos primero y de Internet, supone en la práctica abrir las colecciones –como fuentes de información– a la taxonomía y a otros muchos fines.

>>> Suárez, A.V. & Tsutsui, N.D. (2004). The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society. BioScience 54 (1): 66-74

3.0. Estamos en los albores de un  nuevo paradigma  científico («A new era of data-intensive science» Douglas Kell).  En este escenario, el potencial de las colecciones es enorme y obvio, pero para realizarlo éstas han de reinventarse de nuevo: que su información sea fácilmente accesible e integrable, entender los retos y las presiones de la biología molecular,  conectar y relacionar datos e imágenes afines, etc.

>>>  Hey,T., Tansley,S., & Tolle,K. (Eds.) ( 2009). The fourth Paradigm. Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery. Microsoft Research. Redmon. E.E.U.U.

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